Michael and David begin their new series on Transgressive Thinkers, with an overview of the radical ideas of Thomas Szasz. Subjects include victimhood vs. self esteem, rhetoric, religion, inquisitions, social hysteria, social fictions, Freud, the rise of psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Personalism, the “Outsider,” narcissism and autophobia, mental illness, madness, malingering, coercion, incarceration, “Big Pharma,” and the rise of the Nanny State.
Program References
Thomas Szasz Speaks
Thomas Szasz (Amazon Page)
Against Behaviorism (T. Szasz)
Bleak House (Dickens)
John Paul Sartre
Eric Voeglin
Karl Kraus
Otto Rank
Georg Groddeck
Boris Sidis
Arthur Janov
Alexander Lowen
Ludwig Binswanger
Pierre Janet
Anna Freud
Melanie Klein
Alice Miller
Karen Horney
Nathaniel Branden
Michel Foucault
Wilhelm Fliess
Case of Anna O
Camille Claudel
Panoptican
Salpetriere Hospital
Aeon of Horus (Article)
The Rise of Mental Illness in America
The Mental Illness Fraud Explained
Psychiatry’s Reign of Terror (Vids)
